At the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Cranbourne, the first Growing Friends Plant Sale for this year will be held: on Saturday and Sunday 19 and 20 March 2022 between 10.00am to 4pm We recommend that you bring a facemask for your own safety and peace…
This is a hands-on workshop where you will learn about the very diverse Proteaceae family, which has about 1700 species, many of them occur in Australia. You will view the plants in-situ in the Gardens as well as viewing them…
Growing Friends Autumn Plant sale will be on soon. All welcome. Come along and select from a range of small and large plants many of which you will find in the Australian Garden Plant lists are now available: Alphabetic plant…
Come along on a Members-only tour of the Recycled water treatment plant (WTP), at the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne. The tour will be led by Warren Worboys, who project-managed its construction for the RBGV. The WTP is an important part of the Gardens infrastructure,…
An AAFBG (Australian Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens) group will visit RBG Cranbourne by bus; after morning tea hosted by the Cranbourne Friends and a tour of the Australian Garden, they will travel on to Cruden Farm.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Cranbourne Friends, RBGV, will be held on Sunday 12 November, in the Auditorium, at RBG Cranbourne. At the meeting the Annual Report 2023 will be presented to members. Financial members of the Friends…
In November the Botanical Illustrators have arranged for watercolour artist David Reynolds to present a second workshop. In August he previously showed us how to paint the colourful bird, the Spotted Pardalote. Held over two consecutive Fridays, the chosen subject…
Growing Friends Autumn Plant Sale will be held at the Australian Garden on Saturday and Sunday, 22 and 23 March. Come along and select from our wide range of plants, many of which you will find in the Australian Garden.…
Raising Rarity is an RBGV program designed to engage the wider community in the conservation of threatened Victorian plant species. “With over a third of plants in Victoria listed as threatened, we need the help of the wider community to…